Isabel returns to Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront their family’s past-one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering pleasure palaces and underworld crime bosses. Meanwhile, the family she has left behind struggles to survive, only to have their world shattered by the Cultural Revolution. When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home-and that she will never see her father again. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. To celebrate the debut of Remembering Shanghai, the author will gift each registered participant of her SILF presentation with a signed book.Ī high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. The South China Morning Post describes it as “an engaging and entertaining saga” while the Asia Literary Review says it is “elegantly written, intimate and compelling.” Moderated by film producer Corey Tong. The stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy result from a ten-year collaboration between Claire and her mother Isabel Sun Chao. Claire Chao: Remembering Shanghai-A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels follows five generations of the Sun family from the last days of imperial rule to vibrant 1930s Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong.
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